Midori Fonts

The outline font editor I use for development is
FontLab
Studio 5. I have created FontLab-compatible codepage files (which
can be used to generate cmap tables in the compiled font) for the OS/2
Extended Universal Glyph List. These can be downloaded
here.

About the Name
I chose the name "Midori" (Japanese for "green") as an oblique
tribute to a lovely school in Japan where I worked for several years,
which uses green as its official colour.

Midori Sans

Midori Sans is a semi-condensed sans-serif font which combines
both transitional and humanist elements. It is mainly intended
for on-screen user interface text, but may also be suitable for
printed text at small sizes.

Midori Sans takes considerable inspiration from a group of
well-known humanist sans-serif faces which are known for their
readability. These include Frutiger, Verdana,
Droid Sans, and DejaVu Sans; the basic character
proportions, however, are more closely related to those of my
Workplace Sans font.

Midori Sans is relatively narrow (though not so much as a true
condensed font) but has a high x-height which improves readability
at small sizes. These characteristics make it well-suited for use
in menus and dialogs.

Note, however, that Midori Sans lacks finely-tuned hinting, and is
therefore recommended for use in environments where text anti-aliasing
is available.

Midori Sans is available in regular and bold weights.
Both weights currently support the Latin-1 character set, and
various supplemental glyphs.